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URGENT: Invasion of the Old Account Hijackers

Jan 9, 2019

Since mid-autumn 2018, I've been seeing a number of legitimate-looking DeviantArt accounts who've been around for years and whose owners have, depending on the account, established decent bodies of work and have interacted in non-suspicious ways with other Deviants…but those were all years ago, and they're now suddenly and randomly adding my work as well as that of others to their favorites. I can tell the accounts are all being hijacked because every About section or most recent status update of each hijacked page contains in its text a spam link to a pornography Website. On December 15, 2019, MutantEnjin (https://www.deviantart.com/mutantenjin) made the critical discovery